Updated November 2019
Materials on marketisation and neoliberalism in UK higher education
For reports, academic journal articles and books see bottom of this page
See also the blogs:
Campaign for the public university
Marketisation of higher education
Critical education (Andrew McGettigan)
This university strike isn't just about pay - it's about an industry in crisis, Heather Connolly, Prospect, 25 Nov 2019
Higher Education is big business, Mark Corver, WonkHE, 11 Nov 2019
How the university became neoliberal, Andrew Seal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 Jun 2018
On academic freedom, Clive Barnett, Pop Theory, 15 May 2018
Why have they done this?, Stefan Collini, London Review of Books, published 6 May 2018, issue dated 10 May 2018
Are you in a BS job: in academe, you're hardly alone, David Graeber, Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 May 2018
The neurotic academic: how anxiety fuels casualised academic work, Vik Loveday, LSE Impact Blog, 17 Apr 2018
The financialisation of higher education and the USS dispute, Clive Barnett, USS Briefs, 10 Apr 2018
Moral obligations and occupations: resisting the neo-liberal university, Rebecca Hewer, 26 Mar 2018
Role of universities, Stephen Toope, Cambridge, letter to The Times, 16 Mar 2018 (scroll down; or see copy here)
An end in sight for the neoliberal university, Iida Kayhko and Charlie Macnamara, Novara Media, 1 Mar 2018
Lecturing in a UK university is starting to feel like working for a business, Anonymous, Guardian, 23 Feb 2018
The marketisation of higher education, Stefan Collini, Fabian Society, 22 Feb 2018
Resisting the neoliberal university, Ben Ralph, New Socialist, 7 Feb 2018
Neoliberalism 1979-2008, Eric Lybeck, Kings Review, 8 Apr 2015
Recent reports, academic journal articles and books
Graduate indebtedness: its perceived effects on behaviour and life choices – a literature review, Ariane de Gayardon et al, Centre for Global Higher Education, June 2018
The neurotic academic: anxiety casualisation and governance in the neoliberalising university, Vik Loveday, Journal of Cultural Economy, 2018
Feeling Academic in the Neoliberal University: Feminist Flight, Fights and Failures, eds. Yvette Taylor and Kinneret Lahad, Palgrave, 2018
The Toxic University: Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and Neoliberal Ideology, John Smyth, Palgrave, 2017
Producing anxiety in the neoliberal university, Lawrence D. Berg et al, The Canadian Geographer, 2016
The neoliberal university and its alternatives, Michael Rustin, Soundings, 2016
Neoliberal competition in higher education today: research, accountability and impact, Mark Olssen, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
The marketisation of higher education: issues and ironies, Roger Brown, New Vistas, 2015
The Great University Gamble: Money, Markets, and the Future of Higher Education, Andrew McGettigan, Pluto Books, 2013
Performativity, commodification and commitment: an I-spy guide to the neoliberal university, Stephen J. Ball, British Journal of Educational Studies, 2012
Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University, eds. Joybe E. Canaan and Wesley Shumar, CRC Press, 2011
